A new study has shown that the global population of blue whales, the world’s largest living thing, is slowly but surely growing. After a centuries of industrial whale hunting left the total number of blue whales at around 5000, research by John Calambokidis is good news for ocean lovers everywhere.

About 10 million wild salmon have gone missing from Canadian shores this past year, prompting officials to launch an investigation. According to government predictions, 13 million sockeye salmon were expected to return to Canadian rivers to spawn. Instead, fewer than 2 million returned prompting fears of a population collapse.

A swarm of giant jellyfish is being blamed for the sinking of a 10-ton fishing boat off the coast of Chiba in Japan. The trawler named Diasan Shinsho-maru was in the process of pulling in their nets containing dozens of large Nomura’s jellyfish when the accident happened.

A revealing new biography about the life, and secret life, of Jacques Cousteau has hit bookstands. “Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King” by Brad Matsen takes a very close look at a man known around the world for his high seas adventures and underwater films.

In a move reminiscent of the early days of the whaling debate, a group of scientists have recommended a commercial ban on the trade of Atlantic bluefin tuna.

A ship carrying a veritable stew of toxic waste that was shipwrecked off the coast of southern Madagascar has been deemed an ecological disaster, according to a report by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).